Preventive Use Of Antipsychotic Drugs Weighed; Cite World LeadersPreventive Use Of Antipsychotic Drugs Weighed; Cite World Leaders

Psychiatry, which has evolved from advocating cathartic conversations to prescribing antipsychotic drugs, is now weighing prescribing the mental salves as a preventive measure, that is, before people actually become psychotic. To give credence to the possible benefits of such prodromal therapy, psychiatrists who advocate the prophylactic procedure point to the behavior of many world leaders, past and present.

One psychiatrist pointed out that such a early intervention might have remediated nature or nurture tendencies that have given us the likes of Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.